Senior Designer

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead the design of one of the product teams in teaching and learning. You will work directly with a product manager and engineers as the designer on the team, taking work from discovery through to delivery. Working with a Design Lead and designers across other product teams, you will drive the design process from understanding the problem to shipping and iterating, conduct research with students and teachers to ensure design decisions are evidence-based, and maintain consistency with the wider product ecosystem. This role reports to the Design Lead.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead design for your product team end to end, including discovery, flows, prototypes, specifications, and iteration after launch
• Work with your PM and engineers to shape scope, make trade-offs, and ship
• Plan and run research and usability testing, and combine the findings with behavioural data
• Work with education technology and curriculum specialists so designs support how students learn, including how content and UI work together
• Use and contribute to shared patterns, and align with designers from other product teams, as well as with designers from other teams when there is a need to do so
• Take part in critiques and support other designers through feedback

Requirements:

• At least 8 years in digital product design, with a portfolio showing complex products shipped
• Strong interaction design, visual design, and prototyping skills, including evidence of designing for accessibility and content-heavy interfaces
• Experience owning design for a product area and working closely with PMs and engineers
• Hands-on experience planning and running user research and usability testing
• Sound judgement in ambiguous situations, and the ability to explain your design decisions clearly
• Attention to detail combined with an eye for consistency across products
• Thoughtful, intentional use of AI tools in your design workflow

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing for education or learning platforms
• Experience doing research with children or young people
• Familiarity with the public sector or large-scale platforms